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Judith Tonhauser

@judithtonhauser.bsky.social
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Linguist: experimental & theoretical semantics & pragmatics; bike & biking enthusiast; based in Stuttgart, Germany

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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Applications are open for the 2027 summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology: All details are here: smlp.science
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The Eleventh Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology
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Lizzie Coppock @lizzieloo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Fall 2026 version of Invitation to Formal Semantics now out! Extensively revised throughout, with new final chapter unifying events, tense, aspect & modality. eecoppock.info/bootcamp/sem...
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Kristin Eichhorn @drkeichhorn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Übrigens stehen jetzt alle Stellungnahmen zum #WissZeitVG auf der Homepage des BMFTR. Man hat einiges zu lesen... #IchBinHanna www.bmftr.bund.de/DE/Ministeri... @amreibahr.bsky.social @kubon.bsky.social
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Gesetz über befristete Arbeitsverträge in der Wissenschaft (WissZeitVG) - BMFTR
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Peter Jelinek @peterjelinek.eurosky.social · 07/06/2026
Der Moment, als die Tagesschau einem Neonazi zur besten Sendezeit ein Interview gibt, weil er eine Wahl in einer Kleinststadt verloren hat. Und man fragt sich: Wieso gebt ihr ihm eine Bühne?!
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AR Deal @ardeal.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
we ran the numbers-- they are bad
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The academic job market in linguistics: beyond vibes
the numbers are also bad
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Jens Fleischhauer @uebers-klima-reden.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Ein Argument, das immer wieder gegen das #Gendern vorgebracht wird, ist, dass Deutschlernende ausgeschlossen werden würde. Aber stellt Gendern tatsächlich ein Hindernis für Deutschlernende dar? Dazu ist gestern eine Studie erschienen: www.frontiersin.org/journals/lan... Kurz: Nö, so ist es nicht!
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Frontiers | Comprehensibility of gender-fair language among foreign language learners of German: an experimental study
In public and academic debates, the gender star has been criticized for potentially hindering text comprehensibility and imposing an additional burden on lea...
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Judith Tonhauser @judithtonhauser.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Greg and I wrote a thing! We present a reasoning-based analysis of projection of the content of the complement of negated "know"-utterances. The analysis also predicts that the belief attribution is weakly projective, a result that is confirmed experimentally! www.meaning-journal.org/index.php/Me...
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Predicting within-utterance projection variation | Meaning: a journal of linguistics and philosophy
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Judith Tonhauser @judithtonhauser.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Greg and I wrote a thing! We present a reasoning-based analysis of projection of the content of the complement of negated "know"-utterances. The analysis also predicts that the belief attribution is weakly projective, a result that is confirmed experimentally! www.meaning-journal.org/index.php/Me...
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Predicting within-utterance projection variation | Meaning: a journal of linguistics and philosophy
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!
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Universität Stuttgart @unistuttgart.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Diversität verbindet. 🎉 Am 18. Mai laden wir herzlich zum Diversity-Tag auf den Campus Beach ein – zum Vernetzen, Feiern und Mitmachen. 🕚 11:30 – 14:30 Uhr. Anmeldung bis 10. Mai: www.uni-stuttgart.de/universitaet/…
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Tatjana Scheffler @tschfflr.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026
🚀 One week left to apply for my postdoc position in emoji semantics! Join us for: 🔬 linguistic experiments 🔍 semantic theory 🤝 interdisciplinary collaboration 🧑‍💼 developing your own research agenda 💻 digital communication 🤩 a wonderful team 💪 a supportive supervisor #bochum #emoji #linguistics […]
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German Shakespeare Society (DSG) @dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
22. März, #schauspielstuttgart: #DSG Präsidentin Prof. Sibylle Baumbach im Gespräch mit Chefdramaturgin und Vizeintendantin Gwendolyne Melchinger für eine "Einführung Spezial" zur #Hamlet Inszenierung von Burkhard C. Kosminski #Shakespeare #shakespeareingermany #shakespearegesellschaft
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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Interested in science management? Come work with us in Tübingen as a Project Manager for the Germany-wide interdisciplinary research cluster (www.lasting-spp.org)! 3 years, PostDoc-level salary. Please share, or reach out with questions. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
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Judith Tonhauser @judithtonhauser.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Do humans assume that AI systems have the expertise to deliver medical or legal advice? Agnieszka Faleńska (www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute...) and I are looking for a postdoc to work on these questions with us. Please reach out for further information www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/de/aktuelles...
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New Project and Position:
The interdisciplinary project “Authority Presuppositions in Human-AI Communication” (APHIC) led by Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska and Prof. Judith Tonhauser has been accepted, and we are seeking a postdoc or ...
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Heike Specht @heikespecht.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Als der Krieg endete, war Simone Veil keine 18 und Vollwaise. Sie sei sich oft vorgekommen wie eine Außerirdische, kaum jemand wollte die Geschichten der Überlebenden hören. Noch Jahre später, da war sie  längst aufgestiegen zu einer bekannten Juristin
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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This is awesome! I have been curating a list of #linguistics journals, with information on their publishing model (and also on whether they admit submissions created by LaTeX, a high-quality, professional Open Source way to produce scientific documents). uni-duesseldorf.sciebo.de/s/BvRY0u3rDY...
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sciebo - Die Campuscloud
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Judith Tonhauser @judithtonhauser.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Postdoc position in Stuttgart, Germany (TV-L 13, 100%) for 18 months, on authority presuppositions in AI systems with Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska and me. For more information and application info, see here: safety.https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/documents/team/falensaa/aphic_postoc.pdf
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Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
In our new tutorial, @meanwhileina.bsky.social and I walk you through meaningful hypothesis testing using a less known form of calculating Bayes Factor. osf.io/preprints/ps... People transitioning to Bayes often wonder how to decide if an effect is meaningful or not. Here you go... 1/🧵
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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Happy to share the first version of my textbook "Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R". stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/ Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...) The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.
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Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R
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Judith Tonhauser @judithtonhauser.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Postdoc position in Stuttgart, Germany (TV-L 13, 100%) for 18 months, on authority presuppositions in AI systems with Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska and me. For more information and application info, see here: safety.https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/documents/team/falensaa/aphic_postoc.pdf
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Asya Achimova @aachimova.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
When people respond "two" to the question "How many animals did Moses take on the ark?" do they actually accommodate a false presupposition that Moses took animals on the ark? Apply for a Ph.D. position to work on presuppositions, deadline 20.12.2025. More info at linguistlist.org/issues/36-3553
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Judith Tonhauser @judithtonhauser.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Hot off the presses! A new paper by @thegricean.bsky.social (Judith Degen) and me on "Projection inferences: On the relation between prior beliefs, at-issueness, and lexical meaning", in Glossa Psycholinguistics escholarship.org/uc/item/7hb2...
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Projection inferences: On the relation between prior beliefs, at-issueness, and lexical meaning
Author(s): Degen, Judith; Tonhauser, Judith | Abstract: Interpreters frequently draw projection inferences, that is, inferences that the speaker believes utterance content contributed in the scope of ...
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Titus von der Malsburg @tmalsburg.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I'm offering a 3-year PhD position with benefits (1-year extension possible). Research topic open but broadly in incremental sentence comprehension. If you're into eye-tracking, even better! No teaching until Summer 2027, light teaching after that (English). Official ad soon. Please share 🙏
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Asya Achimova @aachimova.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
More Ph.D. positions available in several projects related to the #SFB Common ground! Please see the list here uni-tuebingen.de/de/283575
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Freie Stellen
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.
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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
#OTD 86 years ago, Anita Steube (1939-2021) was born 🎉 She was an expert on German grammar, specialising in the study of syntax and information structure. Another important aspect of her work was the comparison and typology of languages. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
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lisa @lisahofmann.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
My article about anaphoric accessibility in hypothetical and counterfactual discourse has been officially published in #Semantics & #Pragmatics ✨ doi.org/10.3765/sp.1... ✨
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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Confs: Formal Diachronic Semantics 10
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Confs: Formal Diachronic Semantics 10
Formal Diachronic Semantics 10 (FoDS 10) will be hosted by the Linguistics Department at the University of Texas, Austin from October 16 to October 18 2025. In keeping with its tradition, FoDS brings together scholars interested in the exploration of the semantic and pragmatic aspects of diachronic processes in natural languages from a formal perspective. FoDS has been meeting yearly since 2016. It being the 10th Anniversary of FoDS, we will be marking it with presentations from some key resea
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Hedwig Richter @hedwigrichter.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Umfrage des Verbandes dt Historiker unter Promovierenden. Ergebnis: "Fehlverhalten im Arbeitskontext von Historiker:innen ist leider kein Randphänomen. Über die Hälfte etwa erfahre „implizite Drohung bzw. Einschüchterung“, von Wutanfällen berichteten 29% etc www.historikerverband.de/wp-content/u....
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Konstanze Marx @konstanzemarx.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#jobs @uniheidelberg.bsky.social #BLinguistik Akademische Ratsstelle am Germanistischen Seminar
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Stellenausschreibungen an der Universität Heidelberg
Infosystem der ZUV
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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Jobs: Mayan; Yucateco; Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax, Typology: Researcher (Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Jobs: Mayan; Yucateco; Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax, Typology: Researcher (Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Other Specialties: Corpus Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Field Research Description: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Language and Literature, Department German Language and Linguistics seeks to fill the position of a researcher (=Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in) – E 13 TV-L HU (Third-party funding until 12/31/2027). Field of duty (a) collaboration in the DFG-funded research project A06 "Modeling Register Variation across Languages” of SFB1412 “Register”; (b) r
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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Hey graduate student esp in #linguistics but also everywhere: The third edition of Monica Macaulay’s guide to surviving graduate school is out! www.cascadilla.com/surviving.html
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Surviving Linguistics: A Guide for Graduate Students
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Katja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Oh huch. Noch mehr Fakten! "Deutschlandticket trägt sich finanziell selbst CDU und SPD streiten um Geld für das 58-Euro-Ticket. Dabei übersteigt sein volkswirtschaftlicher Nutzen seine Kosten, zeigt eine Studie." taz.de/Zukunft-des-...
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Studie zeigt: Deutschlandticket trägt sich finanziell selbst
CDU und SPD streiten um Geld für das 58-Euro-Ticket. Dabei übersteigt sein volkswirtschaftlicher Nutzen seine Kosten, zeigt eine Studie.
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Heike Specht @heikespecht.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Vor 54 Jahren brachte der "Stern" eine von Alice Schwarzer initiierte spektakuläre Selbstbezichtigungskampagne. 374 Frauen, z.T. Prominente wie Romy Schneider und Senta Berger, bekannten "Wir haben abgetrieben". Die Reformbestrebungen des §218 wurden neu angefacht. 1/3
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Amazing account of ChatGPT's sycophancy and confabulation on steroids. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
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Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
💣 praatpicture version 1.4.0 on CRAN! 💣 (1/3)
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Gc Rox @gcrox.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!
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🦇🧛 Hanno Auflauer 🧛🦇 @matthias-warkus.de · 08/05/2025
einsteigen einsteigen und reinigen reinigen reinigen und bitte nicht bitte nicht bitte nicht und wir reinigen einsteigen und reinigen und bitte nicht und wir reinigen
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radkolumne @radkolumne.de · 06/05/2025
Radfahren in #Stuttgart www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.mutte...
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Mutter bittet Stadt Stuttgart um Hilfe: Radlerin fühlt sich im Schwabtunnel von Autos bedroht
Mehrmals täglich fährt Katharina Höfelmann mit dem Rad durch den Schwabtunnel in Stuttgart. Ein Spaß war das noch nie, aber zwei Erlebnisse in einer Woche haben die Mutter aufgeschreckt. So reagiert d...
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grumpy jay @herbstgeraschel.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
May Ayim wäre heute 65 geworden. Sie war eine deutsche Lyrikerin, Pädagogin, Logopädin und Aktivistin. Ihr Buch "Farbe bekennen" trug maßgeblich zur Verbreitung der Selbstbezeichnung "afrodeutsch" bei und gilt als Grundlagenwerk zu Schwarzen Deutschen.
Stilisiert gemaltes Porträt von May Ayim.
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Heike Specht @heikespecht.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Nur so ein Bauchgefühl, aber ich denke der nächste Papst wird wieder keine Frau.
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Exciting news! ✨ Do you want to ... 👩‍💻... work on linguistic creativity 🌄 ... get to know #Bielefeld Here is your chance: The 1st Summer School on Linguistic Creativity, hosted by CRC 1646, from July 21st-25th 2025. More info here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/... #linguistics #BLinguistik
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Summer School 2025 - Universität Bielefeld
Die Sommerschule 2025 des Sonderforschungsbereichs (SFB 1646: „Linguistische Kreativität“) der Universität Bielefeld. Alle Termine und Informationen finden Sie hier.
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This American Life @thisamericanlife.org · 16/04/2025
When Mika was killed in a hit-and-run, her parents hoped for justice. But when the driver walked free and the charges were dropped, they realized that if anything was going to happen in their daughter’s case, they’d need to take matters into their own hands.
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How to Tell a Dumb American Story - This American Life
A couple devises a strategy to get their daughter's killer prosecuted and to get attention for other Native families.
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Pause @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · 14/04/2025
[Admin] Wie und warum sich Sprache verändert - Bitte begrüßt Katharina Pabst herzlich auf dem Kanal! realscientistsde.blogspot.com/2025/04/wie-...
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Wie und warum sich Sprache verändert - Katharina Pabst ist jetzt bei Real Scientists DE!
Diese Woche freuen wir uns auf Katharina Pabst. Katharina (kpabst@bsky.social) ist Assistenzprofessorin in Englischer Sprachwissenschaft an ...
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Alex Lorson @lordlorson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Exciting opportunity! We’re offering a fully funded four-year PhD position in the fields of sociolinguistics, experimental pragmatics and cognitive linguistics @unigroningen.bsky.social! Join Alexander Martin and me to investigate the social meaning of address forms: www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
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Vacatures bij de RUG
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Eleanor Schille-Hudson @erbsh.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
My team and I are getting ready to run a big study on Prolific, but we are pretty spooked about AI tools for filling out surveys online etc. What measures are you all implementing to sort out bots, and how bad is it out there? 😳
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